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F. L. STUART.

CONVEYING SYSTEM.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I3, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 16, 1919.

Application filed May 13, 1919. Serial No. 296,779.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS LEE STUART, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conveying Systems,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to conveying systems in which material, such ascoal, is re ceived from carriers, such as railway cars or boats, andconveyed to a place for storage where itis delivered and from which itis taken for transfer either by city carts or trucks, railway cars orboats.

In one preferred embodiment of my invention the material is brought tothe storage plant or yard by railway cars and boats and delivered to areceiving conveyer belt which may carry the material to boats or bargesat an adj acent or distant pier. Said main conveyer belts may also,through the stackers, trimmers or deliverers be employed to load railwaycars on a track adjacent the bins.

The receiving conveyors are associated with suitable track hoppers,trippers and transfer apparatus by which the material may be transferredfrom the supply :cars and boats to the main conveyer belts, and I alsoassociate with the main conveyer belts reclaimers which gather materialfrom the piles and transfer it to the main conveyer belts when needed.

My improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view of a storage plant or yard showing howthe conveyers and apparatus which I employ are arranged. F1g. 2 shows atransverse section of. a

' portion of the plant at the receiving end thereof.

Fig. 3 is a snnllar view of another por tion of the receiving end of theplant,

per 70 ton boom conveyer 70 Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of aportion of the plant.

All figures of the drawings are more or less diagrammatic butsufficiently illustrate the improvements herein claimed.

In Fig. 1, A'indicates tracks on which cars enter the yard and deliverto a track hopper B at the receiving end -of the yard. At this end ofthe yard I provide two belts C and D each of which extends entirelyacross the yard, one ofthem, G, projecting at one end under the trackhopper and receives material therefrom. This belt C is provided with atripper C of well known constructionwhich may be shifted on the belt andset at any desired position thereon.

The other belt D extends to a pier E and receives material from boats Falongside of the pier. The belt D is provided with a tripper F and issupplied from the boats by apparatus G of any suitable kind adapted toelevate the material from the boats and deliver it to the receivingbelt.

The trippers C and F deliver through hoppers 0, f (Fig. 4) to the mainconveyer belts H, I, J, which extend from the receiving end thereofbetween open storage spaces onfgwhichpiles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and'6 of thematerial are stored in the manner hereinafter described. i i

A stacker, trimmer or deliverer K is associated with each belt and thesestackers are adapted to deliver material from the belts to the storagespaces or to the bins The stacker may be of any desired construction butbriefly stated comprises a truck is (Fig. 4:) mounted to move over atrack N parallel witha main conveyer belt. The main conveyer belt isprovided with a loop or tripper 70 which delivers through a hop- Thisboom conveyer is supported on a frame 70 mounted on a turntable 7.; andthe boom is raised and lowered by tackle 7a". The stacker may be movedback and forth on the mainconveyer belt so as to deliver at any desiredpoint either to storage spaces or tothe bins M. It will be observedthat-the bins M are held in an elevated position so as to providedrive-ways m beneath them so that coal carts or trucks O may enter theyard from a city confusion, large quantities of coal may be stored inthe bins and when the bins are emptied they may be refilled by materialreceived from cars X emptying into the track hopper or from boatsdelivering to the conveyer belts in the manner before described. Whencars fail to arrive it the bins are depleted. or empty, they may berefilled by means of i-eclaimers Q which may be of any suitableconstruction but which gather material from the piles and deliver to themain conveyer belts so that the material may be taken from the piles tokeep the bins supplied, if it is not brought to the plant by boats orcars.

A plant of somewhat similar construction to that just described is shownin my application for patent," Ser. No. 295,717 filed May 8, 1919. Thereclaiming apparatus, as before stated, may be of any suitableconstruction. In Fig. 4 it is shown in outline and comprises a truck gmounted to travel on a track N and provided with a turntable g" to whichthe boom conveyer g is connected. The outer end of the boom conveyer iscarried by a tractor Q3 and the boom carries agathering device 9. whichdelivers to a belt Q5 in turn delivering to the reclaiming conveyer beltg. The apparatus indicated in Fig. 4 issimilar to that shown more indetail in my Patent No. 1,271,627 or July 9, 1918.

Fig. 2 illustrates the track hopper and indicates how it delivers to thebelt G, and Fig. 3 showsthe apparatus G for taking material from boatsand delivering it to the belt D. The adjustable or movable trippers C:and F are illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. r T

Instead of delivering to the storage spaces in the yard or tobins,thematerial may be delivered to boats R at a pier R, or the material maybe delivered to cars S coming intothe yard on a track T. These cars Smay be loaded by the stackers in well known ways, said stackers beingsupplied from the pilesof material in the yard or by material suppliedtothe main conveyer belts by the receiving conveyers O and D, beforementioned. The boats R, R are supplied by a conveyer belt U, supportedon an elevated structure U and providedwith a track hopper V which'maybe set at any desired point to receive material from eitherone of thestackers.

. A conveying system organized in the man ner hereinbefore described iscapable of handling large quantities of material received from differentsources. Such material may be conveyed directly from one part of theplant where it is received to another part where it is immediatelydelivered to. movable carriers, or the material re- ..ceived may bepiled in storage spacesfor future use or may be delivered to bins formore immediate use. It will be observed that at the receiving end of theplant pro vision is made for receiving material from either railway carsor from boats, a'a, either by land or water. At the delivery end of theyard provision is made for delivering material to storage spaces or binsand from these storage spaces or bins the material may be deliveredeither to city carts, to railway cars or to boats; thus provision ismade for handling coal under various conditions and circumstances in themost economical way and on a verylarge scale and thismay be done byapparatus which may be perma' nently installed in the plant and whichmay operate under various conditions without being removed and withoutconfusion.

The stacker shown in the accompanying drawings and hereinbeforedescribed, is not herein claimed specifically- Certain features ofconstruction of said stacker are claimed in my application for, PatentNo. 300,978, filed May 31, 1919.; r

I claim as my invention:

1. A conveying system for receiving anddelivering material, comprising areceiving conveyer, a main conveyer belt to which it delivers, astacker, trimmer or deliverer movable endwise over said main conveyerbelt and supporting a tripper of said belt, a boom conveyer associatedwith said tripper, a storage space towhich the stacker delivers, a binto which the stacker also delivers, a reclaimer for transferringmaterial from the storage space to the mainconveyer belt, and a secondreceivingconveyer also delivering to said main conveyer belt.

2. A conveying system for storage yards, comprising two receiving.conveyers one of which receives material from cars and the other fromboats, a mainconveyer belt to which both of said receiving conveyers -deliver, a stacker, trimmer or deliverer associated with said mainconveyer belt and which is adapted to deliver to a spaceof storage or tocarriers for transporting material away from the yard.

3. A conveying system for storage yards, comprising two receivingconveyers oneof which receives material from cars and the other fromboats, 21 series of main conveyer belts to which said receivingconveyers deliver, storage spaces and storage bins adjacent saidbeltsymeans associated with the belts for transferring materialtherefrom to the storage spaces or bins, and reclaiming apparatus fortransferring -material from storage spaces to the main conveyer belts.

4:. A conveying system *for storage yards, comprising two receivingconveyers one of which receives material from cars and the other fromboats, a series of main conveyor belts to which both of said receivingconveyers deliver, apparatus associated with from to bins or storagespaces adjacent said belts, a conveyer belt at the delivery end of theyard to which said delivering apparatus also delivers, and apparatusassociated with said belt for delivering material to carriers locatedadjacent to or distant from the plant.

5. A conveying system for receiving and delivering materials, comprisinga receiving conveyer, a main conveyer belt to which it delivers, astacker, trimmer, or deliverer movable endWise over said main conveyerbelt and supporting a tripper of said belt and a boom conveyerassociated with said tripper, a storage space to which the stackerdelivers, a bin to which the stacker also delivers, a reclaimer fortransferring material from the storage space to the main conveyer belt,a track for supporting cars to which the stacker is adapted to deliver,and a conveyer belt for carrying material to a distant point and whichis adapted to receive material from said stacker.

6. A conveying system for storage yards, comprising two receivingconveyers, one of which receives material from cars and the other fromboats, a series of main conveyer belts to which said receiving conveyersdeliver, storage spaces and storage bins adjacent said belts, meansassociated with the belts for transferring material therefrom to thestorage spaces or bins,'rec1aimers for gathering material from thestorage spaces and delivering it to the main conveyer belts, drivewaysbeneath the bins for carts to receive material from said bins, and aconveyer belt adjacent said bins extending to a point of delivery.

7. A conveying system for storage yards, comprising two receivingconveyers, one of which receives material from cars and the other fromboats, a series of main conveyer belts to which both of said receivingconveyers deliver, apparatus associated with said main conveyer beltsfor delivering materialtherefrom to bins or storage spaces adjacent saidbelts, reclaimers for gathering material from the storage spaces anddelivering it to the main conveyer belts, a conveyer belt at thedelivery end of the yard extending to a pier to which said deliveringapparatus delivers for supplying boats, a track for railway cars towhich said delivering apparatus is also adapted to deliver, anddriveways beneath the bins for city carts.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

FRANCIS LEE STUART.

